When I came across this news I thought it was one of those social media Cruz. But I did some research and found out that it's no Cruz but the fact according to the national bearue of statistics. That Nigeria recorded a record of over two point two million number of kidnapping cases with over two point two trillion naira paid as Ransom. This was stated by a security expart, Prof. Oyesoji Aremu when he presented a lecture which was organized by the social science student association of the Adekunle Ajasin University, Ondo State, where he examined Nigeria’s current security situation.
This is very alarming from what I can see from the statistics kidnapping and hostage taking is now one big sector in the country that is very lucrative. If government don't do anything serious about this present situation Nigeria soon become a law less country that, it will be difficult for anyone to moves out as a citizen.
https://guardian.ng/news/nigeria-records-2-2m-kidnappings-n2-2tr-ransom-payments-in-one-year-says-report/The sad reality is that no strategic decision is taken to cub the spreading trend of insecurity in the country, the Nigerian government is so corrupt that they are yet to equip the military to be able to combat this alarming security challenges instead there focus is just how to win the 2027 election, to the Nigerian politicians everything is about politics, the lives of innocent Nigerians don’t matter to them, to tell you how wicked the government is they prefer to pay ransom to terrorist rather than invest in the military.
The most annoying part is that even when this terrorist are caught instead of them to prosecute them the government prefers to grant them amnesty and re-inject the same terrorist into the military thereby making the military porous, they even release some of them at times without prosecution just because one big man call, even most of the ransom is shared by some top Nigerians because a wise man once said that any insurgency that last beyond 48hours that the government has a hand in it, it’s actually a shame that Nigeria has gotten to this point, please let everyone be on the watch out since the government have failed.
